Early in the epidemic: impact of preprints on global discourse about COVID-19 transmissibility

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2020, Pages e627-e630

  Majumder, Maimuna S ^a   Mandl, Kenneth D ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; METHODOLOGY; MISINFORMATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS 2; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; GLOBAL HEALTH; PANDEMIC; PEER REVIEW; REPRODUCIBILITY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPIDEMICS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; PANDEMICS; PEER REVIEW; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PREPRINTS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 85083004294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30113-3     Document Type: Note

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